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Mystery, Thrillers, and Suspense October 2025 |
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Venetian Vespers
by John Banville
Struggling writer Evelyn Dolman faces otherworldly occurrences at a decaying palazzo in 1899 Venice following his marriage to disinherited heiress Laura. Evelyn’s already jangled nerves fray further when Laura disappears. How to explain the increasingly sinister circumstances closing around him? Could he be losing his mind?
This is available in our Adult Fiction collection and as an eBook.
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Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting
by Richard Chizmar and W.H. Chizmar
When investigators enter the long-abandoned Widow's Point Lighthouse—site of decades of unexplained deaths and disappearances—they awaken a malignant presence that traps them inside, unraveling time and sanity across two harrowing visits in 2017 and 2025.
This is available in our Adult Fiction collection and as an eBook.
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Matchmaking for Psychopaths
by Tasha Coryell
Newly jilted Lexie, a matchmaker for psychopaths (a specialty her clients are blissfully unaware of), falls for gorgeous client Aidan and befriends client Rebecca despite professional boundaries—but when a human heart appears on her doorstep and her fiancé disappears, Lexie wonders if she matched herself with a killer.
This is available in our Adult Fiction collection.
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The Grave Artist
by Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado
After a newlywed's death at a Hollywood Hills wedding, agent Carmen Sanchez and security expert Jake Heron uncover a serial killer's twisted plot targeting survivors' grief, racing to stop the Honeymoon Killer before they become his next victims, in this sequel to Fatal Intrusion.
This is available in our Adult Fiction collection.
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| Guilty by Definition by Susie DentA cryptic letter with references to Shakespeare arrives at the Clarendon English Dictionary offices in Oxford, England. Senior editor Martha Thornhill thinks the odd missive might be related to her sister’s disappearance a decade earlier, so when more notes appear, Martha and her team work to solve the clues and possibly a crime. This clever debut novel by English lexicographer and TV presenter Susie Dent will please both mystery fans and language lovers. Try this next: Murder by the Book by Amie Schaumberg.
This is available in our Adult Fiction collection. |
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Body of Water
by Adam Godfrey
On a road trip through the Appalachians, Glen and his daughter Lauren become trapped in a diner with strangers and a deadly, supernatural force—an unstoppable “living water” that forces them to confront buried fears in a desperate fight for survival.
This is available in our Adult Fiction collection.
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The Color of Death
by Trey Gowdy and Christopher Greyson
Following the death of his wife and daughter, Colm Truesdale is left mentally scarred. After time off, and with no desire to return to the courtroom, Truesdale is brought back into the investigation of the murder of a young woman who ran a beauty salon outside of town. When a page from her appointment book goes missing, and then the crime scene burns down, it's up to Colm to untangle the web of deception that implicates a powerful judge and his family.
This is available in our Adult Fiction collection and as an eBook and eAudiobook.
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Baited
by Colleen O'Brien
It's 2004 the summer of Glacier National Park's grizzly bear DNA study. Trail crew worker Clancy Dyer dashes through the aspen to roust her buddy. She finds only his shredded tent and horrible smell. She alerts district ranger Mack Savage. As they work to find the missing man, they uncover a series of misdeeds and betrayals.
Told from multiple points of view representing Glacier's eclectic east side, Baited grapples with personal loss, the controversy surrounding grizzly bears and how to reconcile one's love and affection for a person who has committed a reprehensible act.
This is available in our Adult Fiction collection and as an eBook.
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The Glacier Murders
by Cristian Perfumo
The body of a tourist turns up frozen in Patagonia's largest glacier, killed by a gunshot to the belly thirty years ago. Of course, you have no idea that this will change your life. You’ve lived all of it in Barcelona, on the other side of the world. An uncle you never met has just died, leaving you as the sole heir to a mysterious property in El Chaltén, an idyllic town in Patagonia.
You'll travel there to sell it. You'll make the mistake of finding out that there is a connection between your uncle and the dead tourist in the glacier. And you will soon realize that, thirty years after the crime, someone in El Chaltén is willing to wipe you off the face of the earth to keep you from finding out the truth.
This is available in our Adult Fiction collection and as an eBook.
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer
by Ragnar Jâonasson
One evening, bestselling crime author Elín S. Jónsdóttir goes missing. There are no clues to her disappearance and it is up to young detective Helgi to crack the case before its leaked to the press. As Helgi interviews the people closest to her, he realizes that Elín's life wasn't what it seemed. In fact, her past is even stranger than the fiction she wrote. As the case of the missing crime writer becomes more mysterious by the hour, Helgi must uncover the secrets of the writer's very unexpected life.
This is available in our Adult Fiction collection and as an eAudiobook.
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Gone Before Goodbye
by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben
When disgraced combat surgeon Maggie McCabe takes a secretive job treating a powerful man overseas, his sudden disappearance pulls her into a deadly conspiracy forcing her on the run to uncover the truth and clear her name.
This is available in our Adult Fiction collection and as a 7-Day Express Pick.
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